Life Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

— Gustave Flaubert

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

— Gustave Flaubert

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

— Gustave Flaubert

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

— Gustave Flaubert

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

— Gustave Flaubert

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

— Gustave Flaubert

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion,…

— Gustave Flaubert

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost." Flaubert's dictum for getting through life…

— Gustave Flaubert

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only…

— Gustave Flaubert

•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was…

— Gustave Flaubert

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

— Gustave Flaubert

“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on…

— Gustave Flaubert

“[Hers] was an existence between heaven and earth... beyond her stretched as far as the eye could see... an immense space of…

— Gustave Flaubert

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting…

— Gustave Flaubert

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the…

— Gustave Flaubert

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A…

— Gustave Flaubert

“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on…

— Gustave Flaubert

“How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she…

— Gustave Flaubert

“But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first case you are…

— Gustave Flaubert

“One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life”

— Gustave Flaubert

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

— Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

— Gustave Flaubert

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

— Gustave Flaubert

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

— Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

— Gustave Flaubert

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting…

— Gustave Flaubert

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving…

— Gustave Flaubert